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Prostitute vs Chromo - What's the difference?

prostitute | chromo |

As nouns the difference between prostitute and chromo

is that prostitute is a person who performs sexual activity for payment, especially a woman while chromo is (chiefly|historical) a color print produced by chromolithography or chromo can be a prostitute.

As a verb prostitute

is (usually reflexively) to perform sexual activity for money.

As an adjective chromo is

(genetics) of or relating to the chromodomain, a protein structural domain associated with chromatin production.

prostitute

English

(wikipedia prostitute)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who performs sexual activity for payment, especially a woman
    • I currently work as a prostitute in order to pay off my university debts .
  • A person who is perceived as engaging in sexual activity with many people.
  • A person who does, or offers to do, an activity for money, despite personal dislike or dishonour.

    • Usage notes

    * The noun is gender-neutral.

    Synonyms

    * (person who performs sexual activity for payment) See also * (person perceived as engaging in sexual activity) See also , * (person who does an activity for money) sell out

    Verb

    (prostitut)
  • (usually reflexively) To perform sexual activity for money
  • To make another person, or organisation, prostitute themselves.
  • * Bible, Leviticus xix. 29
    • Do not prostitute thy daughter.
  • (derogatory) To use one's talents in return for money or fame
  • (figuratively) To exploit for base purposes; to whore.
    • Yet again a commercial firm had prostituted a traditional song by setting an advertising jingle to its tune.

    Related terms

    * prostitution

    chromo

    English

    Etymology 1

    From chromolithograph.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, historical) A color print produced by chromolithography
  • * {{quote-book, year=1870, author=Various, title=Punchinello Vol. 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=All Nature is smiling, in fact, with one large, comprehensive smile, exactly like a first-class PRANG chromo with a fresh coat of varnish upon it. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1883, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=Life on the Mississippi, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=It was manifest that we all felt that we ought to send the poor shoemaker SOMETHING. There was long and thoughtful discussion of this point; and we finally decided to send him a chromo . }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=1999, date=February 19, author=Deanna Isaacs, title=On Exhibit: a treasure trove of Mexican pop art, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=The neglected warehouse turned out to be a treasury of calendar art from the 1930s through the 1970s, years when chromo art calendars were a major advertising medium, a vehicle for national pride, and a fixture in nearly every home, business, and school. }}

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A prostitute.
  • * 1970 , John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 81:
    • That dried-up lady snob lived behind lace curtains all her life. She's of no more importance than a chromo .

    Etymology 3

    From chromodomain.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (genetics) Of or relating to the chromodomain, a protein structural domain associated with chromatin production
  • * {{quote-journal, 1998, date=April 24, Angus I. Lamond & William C. Earnshaw, Structure and Function in the Nucleus, Science citation
    • , passage=HP1 shares an ~50-amino acid NH 2 -terminal sequence motif, the chromo domain, with polycomb'', an important regulatory gene that functions in the stable repression of homeotic genes during ''Drosophila development (28 ). }}
  • * {{quote-journal, 2001, date=April 6, Jun-ichi Nakayama et al., Role of Histone H3 Lysine 9 Methylation in Epigenetic Control of Heterochromatin Assembly, Science citation
    • , passage=To determine whether the conserved domains, the chromo , SET, and cysteine-rich regions, were also critical for Clr4 HMTase activity, we tested mutant Clr4 proteins for HMTase activity. }}